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DEREK.
Tell everyone it's an acronym, and look at them as if they're stupid for not knowing it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I don't agree with your view of support. I worked mostly on projects for many years, but always managed to do some support as well. Apart from helping people who would have been helped much more slowly (if at all) by the formal processes it gave me the following benefits.
1. A better understanding of what is really going on in the user community
2. Often, a problem / investigation is also a learning experience
3. It widened my contacts within the business so whenever I needed help from someone in country X or function Y, I had a good chance of finding it quickly and easily.
So by all means work mainly on projects, but never give up support completely.
Roger
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The Grand Poobah of Systems Analysis and Integration
You're welcome.
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Isn't it telling you that it's configuring? 
Favourite line: Throw me to them wolves and close the gate up. I am afraid of what will happen to them wolves - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: Isn't it telling you that it's configuring?
Yes, but after so long you wonder if the splash screen is just lying or something. 
Right after I posted this, it finished. I think it was listening.
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Yeah, it is afraid.
Favourite line: Throw me to them wolves and close the gate up. I am afraid of what will happen to them wolves - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Other softwares do show that but the information is sometimes changing so fast that you can't even read it.
To be honest... I don't care what they do, as far as they do it right and the software works ok  
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Start up task-manager, terminate the process, run setup again, google the error-messages, delete some temp-files, delete some registry-entries, run setup again.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Instead I deleted my registry and recreated it by hand.
Then I booted from the kernel and I'm actually just running the command prompt to type this.
It's working great.
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newton.saber wrote: Then I booted from the kernel and I'm actually just running the command prompt
to type this.
Earning man points in 2014: booting into safe-mode, command prompt 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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newton.saber wrote: has been going on for over an hour now.
That's when I go watch some...um, Star Trek, yeah, that's it, Star Trek.
Marc
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Best advice of all. William Shatner should cheer up anyone and make you forget all about bad splash screens. Next Generation is good too.
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Mark Clifton wrote: That's when I go watch some...um, Star Trek, yeah, that's it, Star Trek.
newton.saber wrote: Best advice of all. William Shatner should cheer up anyone and make you forget all about bad splash screens. Next Generation is good too.
I think you misinterpreted the message.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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newton.saber wrote: We can put a person on Mars and Pluto is no longer a planet, but I still have these useless splash screens.
They're not useless.
That one paid for a graphic designer's new Mercedes.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: That one paid for a graphic designer's new Mercedes.
I believe the patent the designer took out on the black rectangle and light blue ink design may have been what earned them the money for that one.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I'll bet he was kicking himself for not thinking of rounded corners.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Your first mistake is not understanding what's going on...
That's NOT a splash screen. It's an installation screen.
Two very different things.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Kevin Marois wrote: Two very different things.
Okay, now it all makes sense.
Is it a mistake to not understand what's going on? Or is it a failure? I believe it is most probably a failure, because a mistake sounds more like something that could've possibly been causes by someone else. I think in this case I'm more of a failure, because I should've looked up the type of screen I was actually dealing with before I could really understand whether or not 1 hour was really a long time. A mistake would've been something more like tripping over my power cord -- by accident -- and having the whole system shut down. I'm going to have to dock you on points for not being more specific.
You've most certainly failed the class now.
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I don't want to know what is doing. All I care about is the time left to finish install. I have seen installers showing that they are deploying SomeRandomName.dll. I frankly have no clue what that means and thus I do not really care much.
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d@nish wrote: All I care about is the time left to finish install
That's actualy what I meant, but since we have the power of the Internet, I knew I could just quickly spew my rant and someone, somewhere in the Universe would finally say what I meant.
That really is what I meant. Just let me know when you're done. will it be 5 hours? Ok. Then I'll go watch William Shatner and some Star Trek.
Thanks,
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newton.saber wrote: We can put a person on Mars
We can? When did this happen?
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They said we "can", not we "have", put a person on Mars. However, they also didn't mention being able to bring them back!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Here's the real link:
http://www.mars-one.com[^]
The mission to be the first Mars settlement.
People can sign up for a free On-eWay Trip right now!!! I'm not kidding.
There are certain people I am really hoping will sign up and win.
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dandy72 wrote: We can? When did this happen?
It's a foregone conclusion, which is all we really need any more.
So it's happened in the future-past. Get with the times, man.
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